The role of event-related brain potentials in assessing central auditory processing

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 573-589

  Alain, Claude ^a,b   Tremblay, Kelly ^c  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory; Auditory scene analysis; ERP; Hearing loss; Perception; Speech; Streaming

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY SYSTEM; COCHLEA; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

AUDITORY DISEASES, CENTRAL; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 38749086801     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.18.7.5     Document Type: Review

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